terça-feira, 19 de maio de 2015

GAP Spain demands an end to the trading of chimpanzees among zoos

by Jaqueline B. Ramos (with information of "20 Minutos")

Chimpanzee in Bioparc (PGS)

Great Ape
Project Spain (PGS) has demanded an end to the trading of chimpanzees that is "frequently"
carried by zoos because they affect the mental health of the great apes
involved and has demanded explanations from Bioparc (at the city of Valencia) for
having transferred all its chimps to other zoos and disintegrated a whole
family disintegrated.

PGS reports
that the family of chimpanzees Miranda, Chispi, Kate and M (females), Napoleon
(male) and Kymbo (son) has been sent to various zoos in Fuengirola, Hungary and
Madrid and has not provided adequate information in this regard. The zoo argues
that "reasons of conservation" species "have nothing to do with the
reality living primate species, in particular great apes".

Pedro
Pozas, PGSs executive director, reminds the study of the scientists who
developed the chimpanzee genome and published it in the scientific journal
Nature. They insisted that the status of the great apes should be reviewed,
apart from providing "better and more human treatment, maintaining and
respecting the social links social in the case of the captive ones.”. He says
that this scientific recommendation "is not being fulfilled at all in any
zoological center."

"The
ethics, dignity of human beings, our gratitude to our evolutionary brothers
apes with whom we share the same common ancestor, must be above economic
interests or senseless breeding programs to do our utmost to protect their
habitat and the improvement of facilities to those in captivity. It is no use
to break family ties of sentient beings like us for commercial interests,"
said Pedro Pozas.

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